"Vision 1-6"

1976 Harper, Clifford (b. 1949). “Vision 1 - 6.” In Peter Harper, Godfrey Boyle, and the editors of Undercurrents. Radical Technology (London: Wildwood House, 1976), 48-49, 94-95, 132-33, 168-69, 200-201, 228-29. U.S. ed. (New York: Pantheon Books/Random House, 1976), 48-49, 94-95, 132-33, 168-69, 200-201, 228-29. Rpt. in a different order as foldout plates in Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society. Ed. Vernon Richards (London: Freedom Press, 1983), 149-54, with commentary by Colin Ward rather than the original description. PSt

Anarchist utopia described in six illustrations with brief notes and some with captions. The visions are of a collectivised garden, a basement workshop, an autonomous village, an autonomous terrace, a community workshop, and a community media centre. Strikingly, the only people shown working are women, and Colin Ward comments on this saying, “Note that the last male chauvinist is sulking in the corner. The women have taken over the shop” (133/Why Work 153).  The author has been an anarchist activist all his life, helped found an intentional community on Eel Pie Island in the Thames and was involved in the All-London Squatters Organisation.